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[Patroclus]

So my mayor was sleeping in her nice mini-palace, with the Dwarven Liaison hanging around awkwardly in the room, when a vampire came in and bled her dry.  The liaison did nothing to prevent it, of course, but once the mayor was dead I got the message "Diplomacy Stymied: An ambassador left unhappy."  At least I ID'd the vampire.

This was the third liaison so far to my fortress, and all three have been thwarted.  The first was ambushed by goblins as soon as he stepped on the map (far away from the caravan's protection).  The second time, my expedition leader was one of my military dwarves on 24/7 training, and so to try and speed up their meeting I changed leaders before their meeting started -- which led to another unhappy departure.  Then the mayor got eated. (Too bad, so far her only mandates were banning the export of bucklers.)

Incidentally -- has anyone managed to stop a vampire attack in progress?  I spotted the vampire before the mayor had "Faint" status, and dispatched speedy legendary troops to the mayor's bedroom (from about 170 spaces away) but the mayor died long before anyone could get there.  I'm thinking of giving the fortress guard a barracks very close to the living quarters.

[thegoatgod_pan]

Stopping vampires is pretty easy: assign them to a burrow and a troop, when feeding needs to stop demand that they go to the burrow and/or give a military move order.  Works for me anyway

[luisedgm]

destroy mayor's bed

[peskyninja]

*phffft*
Magma in the only solution.

[martinuzz]

Make vampire your new mayor

[slink]

I had a vampire abandon his military post as soon as I unlocked the door to the room he was in, for the express purpose of moving rapidly down one flight and over about forty tiles to feed on one of my founding seven.  Nothing I could do would stop him.  He ignored all squad directives.  I had opened the door in order to let the newest member of the Vampire Squad into the post.

Because of this, all vampires in my fortress are now locked alone in a room with a lever, outside the fortress gates.

I had posted the vampires mentioned above in a room overhanging the gate to the fortress, with fortifications all around and floor grates.  The idea was for the vampires to spot kobolds entering the fortress.  They did not do so.  Worthless gits.